{"id":35,"date":"2014-06-19T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.switchnote.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2014-06-19T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T15:45:00","slug":"taking-effective-notes-in-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.switchnote.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Taking Effective Notes in Textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Drew here from SwitchNote. \u00a0Today, I&#8217;m going give some techniques for writing effective notes in textbooks.<\/p>\n<p>As a student, I see many students taking notes in textbooks while reading or studying from them. \u00a0But, I believe 80% of them are doing so in an ineffective manner. \u00a0Simply reading paragraph to paragraph isn&#8217;t always the best way to take-in the material. \u00a0Here are some helpful hints on how to take effective notes in text books:<\/p>\n<p>1. Select Highlighting- Make sure you don&#8217;t go crazy highlighting. \u00a0It should only include key points that you can quickly go back and refer to.<\/p>\n<p>2. Read your notes out loud &#8211; This will help with memorization.<\/p>\n<p>3. \u00a0Spend time looking at diagrams &#8211; Often times the charts\/diagrams in a textbook help summarize the text in a visual way, so studying those can be of great assistance!<\/p>\n<p>4. Circle, star, or highlight key concepts using different colors to help sort out different concepts and topics.<\/p>\n<p>Leave us a comment and let us know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there, &nbsp; Drew here from SwitchNote. \u00a0Today, I&#8217;m going give some techniques for writing effective notes in textbooks. As a student, I see many students taking notes in textbooks while reading or studying from them. \u00a0But, I believe 80% of them are doing so in an ineffective manner. \u00a0Simply reading paragraph to paragraph isn&#8217;t always the best way to take-in the material. \u00a0Here are some helpful hints on how to take effective notes in text books: 1. Select Highlighting- Make sure you don&#8217;t go crazy highlighting. \u00a0It should only include key points that you can quickly go back and refer to. 2. Read your notes out loud &#8211; This will help with memorization. 3. \u00a0Spend time looking at diagrams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.switchnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.switchnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.switchnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.switchnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.switchnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.switchnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"http:\/\/blog.switchnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.switchnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.switchnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.switchnote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}